ORBZ has called it quits!

[Mucman]

This is the Email that was sent out by the runner of ORBZ



<< Here's the email that those of you with forward sight
have been fearing since the inception of ORBZ.

As of this moment, ORBZ is shutting down. DNS zones
are going to stop resolving, the website will disappear
and mail will stop working (so furthur discussion on
this list probably won't work -- use NANAE).

I don't want to disappear in silence like ORBS, so I'll
try for as much description as possible without
compromising my own position.

I received an official court notice this afternoon to
turn over all information relation to ORBZ accounts.
This came from the 10th Judicial District court of the
State of Michigan. It appears that ORBZ may be facing
criminal charges for denial of service relating to the
Lotus Domino issue.

I was happy to try to weather any civil issues that may
have come up, and I was committed to seeing it through.
However, the threat of jail time is too much; I don't believe in this fight quite that much.

Thank you all for all your support. I sincerely hope
that someone with the goal of carrying on the mission
of ORBZ pops up in another country with a less
foreboding legal system. Anyone who has copies of the
current zones may do with them what they wish.

For those of you stuck without good spam filtering,
please consider ORDB and SpamCop; they both provide
excellent free solutions.

Ian Gulliver
ORBZ >>

 

[spidey07]

just what the heck is ORBZ? never heard of it.

 

[Mucman]

ORBZ is a blacklist server that you can set your mail server to do looks on. If you receive mail from a server that is a known open relay, the mail will
be rejected. Now we are using ORDB

 

[n0cmonkey]

I refuse to use those because they can block legit emails. But thats a damn shame for the people who actually like that list.

 

[Mucman]

n0cmonkey - Unfortunately with a server that has over 5000 E-mail accounts on it a lot of spam is sent... If these lists can prevent the server from processing a few thousand E-mails then it is worth it. Heck, Orbz used to put our old mail server on the blacklist all the time, but spam is something
that truly ticks me off.

They are also discussing it on /.

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< n0cmonkey - Unfortunately with a server that has over 5000 E-mail accounts on it a lot of spam is sent... If these lists can prevent the server from processing a few thousand E-mails then it is worth it. Heck, Orbz used to put our old mail server on the blacklist all the time, but spam is something
that truly ticks me off. >>




I dont disagree with the use of it, its just something I wouldnt personally use. Its a shame to see this happening.